Businesses don’t garner insights or make decisions. Businesses don’t close deals, invent new products, or find new efficiencies. People do. Companies excel when they empower their people to drive the business forward. Strategies, organization, motivation, and leadership all set the stage for business success. But to see results, you also have to give your people the right tools, information, and opportunities—because success ultimately comes down to your people. We call a business that foster... Read Full Story

Two new Microsoft Dynamics AX books about “Managing Your Supply Chain” and “Managing Lean Manufacturing” have been written by Dr. Scott Hamilton. Many of you are already familiar with Scott’s book series about Microsoft Dynamics AX. These books have proven effective for helping Microsoft Dynamics® AX partners and Microsoft personnel ramp up their expertise, and for helping Microsoft Dynamics AX prospects/users in choosing and implementing Microsoft Dynamics AX as their ERP system. The books h... Read Full Story

We would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused by a move, but we are sorry to announce a move in our upcoming MeritCare Training Session: Setting Up Payroll in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.The training that was scheduled to take place this Thursday, November 12, will now be postponed until after the Thanksgiving Holiday. See the updated event information below.We are sorry for any issues this may cause, and invite you to contact Merit Solutions with any questions, comments, or concerns... Read Full Story

Register now for our next free MeritCare Training Session.In this training session, we will be looking at setting up payroll in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. During the session, we will be looking at the initial environment for the Payroll module. In this training session, we will provide procedures for setting up date information and pay groups. We will also introduce detailed procedures associated with setting up organizations and person information. We will then introduce procedures for sett... Read Full Story

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 can help your organization maximize your IT investment and reduce total cost of ownership by enabling you to: 1. Support evolving line-of-business (LOB) needs by automating processes and configuring and adapting your solution to the way your business operates. 2. Replace nonintegrated systems with a centralized, cost-effective solution that improves information access and collaboration and integrates easily with critical LOB systems by using a flexible, service-orie... Read Full Story

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States designed Part 11 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR Part 11) to help ensure that life sciences companies can use electronic records and signatures that are equivalent to those based on paper and ink. However, initiating and maintaining Part 11 compliance can be complex and costly. The 2007 Microsoft Office system simplifies compliance with support for the complete document lifecycle. In fact, much of the functiona... Read Full Story

Today’s pharmaceutical companies must navigate a changing landscape of products, customers, and regulations. Pressures from increased competition and government price controls are forcing companies to rethink their entire operation. Learn how easy-to-use customer relationship management (CRM) software, such as Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM business management solutions, can make it easier to respond to government cost-cutting efforts, and get the right messages to your most profitable customers. Se... Read Full Story

There's still time to register for next week's MeritCare Training Session!  Using FRx for Multi-Company Consolidations Scenario: You have three companies in Microsoft Dynamics GP and one company in QuickBooks. To make matters worse, all four of these companies have different GL account structures! What to do to get them all on the same financial statement? Move the QuickBooks company to Dynamics GP of course! Short of that, FRx allows Dynamics GP users to consolidate financial information fro... Read Full Story

Raman Dhooria, IT Consultant, Microsoft India, has published a great article at MSDynamicsWorld.com about the competitive advantage held by Microsoft Dynamics Partners over their non-Microsoft competition.In the article, Raman discusses numerous reasons why the Microsoft Partner Network beats the partner programs of various ERP players. Proof points from the article:Can any other company, including SAP, pay out equal to Microsoft in R&D? In short can they spend around $9 billion on R&... Read Full Story

There's never been a better time to switch from JDEdwards to Microsoft Dynamics AX. Save up to 50% on software, plus an implementation rebate of up to 25%!Effective Monday, May 4, 2009, and available until end of business day Wednesday, December 23, 2009, all new customers migrating from Oracle JDEdwards may be eligible to take advantage of this special up to 50% discount pricing promotion when purchasing Microsoft Dynamics AX or Microsoft Dynamics GP, Advanced Management or Business Essentia... Read Full Story